Performance Measures to Improve Transportation Systems and Agency Operations: Report of a Conference

TRB Confernce Proceedings 26: Performance Measures to Improve Transportation Systems and Agency Operations: Report of a Conference addresses the following: organizational approaches to implementing and using performance measures in transportation systems, including the connection between performance measures and decision making; implementation experience regarding the state of the practice as well as lessons and guidelines for moving forward; customer perspectives of transportation system performance; application of multimodal measures in the planning process and the assessment of system performance; and technical issues involving data, number and type of measures, and trade-off analysis.

The proceedings also addressed how operations affect performance measurement programs or how these programs can affect operations and decision making. This proceedings volume is organized according to the format of the conference. It includes the following major elements of the conference: Four resource papers; Panel discussions on each of the papers, including summaries of the general discussions that followed the panelist presentations; Workshop summary reports from four workshop sessions on state of the practice, issues, opportunities and constraints, and next steps; Summary of the freight performance measures session; Summary and conclusions of the general sessions; Appendix A - Summaries of 20 poster sessions; Appendix B - Summary of peer exchange session on data for performance measures held in Madison, Wisconsin, in August 2000; Appendix C - Research statements developed during peer exchange meeting; and Appendix D - List of conference participants.